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Motor vehicles impact the environment from their initial design and the way they are manufactured, to their use on the road and eventually their disposal when no longer needed.

Now in its seventeenth year, the annual Fork Lift Truck Awards ceremony, took place on Saturday 12, February and was presented by BBC Radio 2’s Sally “Traffic” Boazman. The awards are hosted by the Fork Lift Truck Association (FLTA), which maintains and raises standards in the materials handling industry. It is the most representative body of its kind in Europe.

Ten years ago, nanotechnology was hailed in some quarters as the technology that would solve the world’s problems. Others saw it as a theoretical science divorced from the reality of manufacturing. Interestingly, however, neither one of the original perceptions was right.

The Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) Review was released earlier this week and if you have literally no idea what that means, well you are in luck, because neither do I. Well that’s not true. I now know what the DJSI is because I read a bunch of Wikipedia entries and know my way around a search engine. So… that’s good news for you, I guess.

In its latest bid to cut pollution and restructure the economy, the Chinese governmenthas ordered over 2,000 firms in high polluting and energy intensive industries to shut ‘outdated’ plants. A total of 2,087 companies that produce steel, coal, cement, aluminum and glass have to “close their old and obsolete facilities” by the end of September.

Despite the recession, solar and wind energy markets continue to show compelling growth. Manufacturers around the world have taken notice. And according to a new report by the ACTU and the Australian Conservation Foundation, Australian manufacturing workers could be big winners in the race for green jobs.

Over the past 12 months, we at Manufacturing Digital have been hearing more and more stories of companies trying to make the types of changes necessary to remain competitive and profitable in today’s difficult, and yet increasingly green, business climate.

On June 1, General Motors, America's largest carmaker, declared bankruptcy. The move marked the biggest manufacturing collapse in U.S. history.